Thanks to Lifehacker for pointing this out.

San Francisco Gate columnist Mark Morford wonders if it’s time for you to “quit your safe job and follow your path and infuriate the establishment”:

Our culture allows almost no room for creative breaks. There is little tolerance for seeking out a different kind of “work” that doesn’t somehow involve cubicles and widening butts and sour middle managers monitoring your e-mail and checking your Web site logs to see if you’ve wasted a precious 37 seconds of company time browsing blowfish.com or reading up on the gay marriage apocalypse.

We are at once infuriated by and enamored with the idea that some people can just up and quit their jobs or take a leave of absence or take out a loan to go back to school, how they can give up certain “mandatory” lifestyle accoutrements in order to dive back into some seemingly random creative/emotional/spiritual endeavor that has nothing to do with paying taxes or the buying of products or the boosting of the GNP. It just seems so … un-American. But it is so, so needed.

I dream about making a name for myself online. I dream of working six hour days, seven days a week, but being able to take a few days off every once and a while to do other things. I dream of enjoying my job, and learning new things. I want to be a professional blogger. What’s your dream? What do you like being creative with?